I guess everyone who reads this page knows that Apple has released a new iPhone generation. If you don't know I'm pretty sure, that you are aware of the fact, that there are some companies outside your appartment that produces hard and software. I assume that you know TYPO3, and that tells me that you know what "Open Source" is. (At least im 99% sure that you know it.) You should also now the world wide web. If not, try to explain how you read this post in the comments below the text. 

Now that we have clarified the basics I want to get to the point. The last weeks, I have the feeling that it is a hobby of many many people in the world wide web to blame products of other people or companies on the one hand and yelling into the world how great the stuff is they actually use. Is it just me or is this like Kindergarten?

I mean, how can someone be satisfied by searching for every hair in the soup and call others stupid and incompetent just because the use or like something they don't like, don't want, can't achieve, can't understand or I don't know what...

My favorite example for this at the moment is the iPhone 3G or iPhone in general. It's a given fact, that the iPhone does not support MMS. Okay, that might be bad for some people who use that technology but is that really a reason to say "the iPhone is totally useless". Is it arrogant if I say that this people have an horizon till the end of the table? Okay, MMS is a feature that is build in most of the other devices. But is it useful just because it's built in? Be honest... How many times did you used MMS in your life. If I recapture, I guess I used it 10 times in 12 years of using mobile phones. So for me, this is definitely a feature I can abstain from. Maybe I would understand the people who say that the iPhone is a piece of crap because it does not support MMS IF the iPhone would not provide any alternatives. But look, it does!
The magic word is e-mail. Most phones already support e-mail, but why is it not used? Maybe because the "normal" phones are really bad from a usability point of view? Whatever the reason is, I don't say that phone XY is shit because it does not support e-mail like all the iPhone haters do. It seems they don't get tired of barking their totally uninteresting opinion again and again and again everywhere something is written about the iPhone.

To make one thing clear. I am NOT an iPhone fanboy! I waited for the iPhone 3G because I missed the 3G in the first generation device. I still miss some things in the current release! Things like sending contacts via bluetooth or email. But the difference is, that I have my opinion which I only the people if they actually ask me. I do not wait in the T-Mobile store and tell my f**king story everyone who just want to look around. I'm really pissed by those people who do that over and over again.

By the way, this is not only about Apple and the iPhone. It's almost the same with Microsoft products. Especially XBOX 360 and PS3. Look at any existing news-portal that writes about both products. It doesn't matter which product is in the focus of the actual article. You can be sure, that right after the article was released, the opposite party will begin to blame the product. That seems to force the other side to reply on this gauntlet. Some times I have the feeling that everyone needs his personal vendetta about the most unimportant thing on the world.

So what's the bottom line? All I would like to see is that the people stop blaming other people just because they can. If you have an opinion keep it for you or tell it the people that asked for it. If you think that someone stink, try to understand that on the other side of the line is human being. It absolutely not necessary to insult anyone or spread your bad vibrations just because you have another opinion or a bad poo in the morning.